Happy New Year! Despite my woeful 2015 predictions I'm going to try again. My runes show the web aligning with Uranus…
1. A Major Corporate Hack Will Occur
Let's get the doom-mongering out of the way first. A large multi-national corporation will be hacked during 2016. It's a certainty. Targets in 2015 included the IRS, the FBI, VTech, Ashley Madison, T-Mobile, Scottrade, CVS, OPM, UCLA Health, Carphone Warehouse, TalkTalk, Trump Hotels and even LastPass -- the password manager. Personal data was stolen and, in the worst cases, passwords and credit card details were revealed.
Despite media reports of sophisticated attacks, many of these systems were accessed using nothing more complex than SQL injections or brute-force attempts. Many systems leaked unencrypted data or had woeful security.
Hacks will continue until companies take security seriously. No system will ever be 100% secure but I suspect many of these systems were implemented years ago by novice developers. My advice: hire some hackers or pay a bug bounty before it's too late.
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by Craig Buckler via SitePoint
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